Colin Baker
Biography
Colin Baker (born 8 June 1943) is an English actor who played Paul Merroney in the BBC drama series The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986. Baker's tenure as the Doctor proved to be a controversial era for the series, which included a hiatus in production and his subsequent replacement on the orders of BBC executive Michael Grade.
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Acting History
2025
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
2023Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets & Scandals as Self - archive
2023Christmas at the Holly Day Inn as Ben
2023Tales of the Tardis as The Doctor
2023Talking Doctor Who as Self / The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
2023Buckle Up as Nick
2023Secrets of a Wallaby Boy as Bruce (voice)
2022The Caller as DS Rawlins (voice)
2021The Ghosts of Borley Rectory as Charles Sutton
2021You Might Get Lost as Conrad
2019Showman: The Life of John Nathan-Turner as Himself
2019The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited as Self
2019The Doctors: The Colin Baker Years
2019Doctor Who: The Trial as Self
2018Remembering Deborah Watling as Self
2016Last Man on Earth as Professor James Friedkin
2015Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song as The Doctor (6) (picture) (uncredited)
2015A Christmas Carol as Charles Dickens
2015A Dozen Summers as The Narrator
2014Shadows of a Stranger as William Fallon
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
2014Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison as Self
2013Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty as Self
2013The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
2013Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
2013Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS as Self
2013Doctor Who: Yellow Fever and How to Cure It as The Doctor
2013Doctor Who: Gallifrey as The Doctor
2013Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor as Self
2013Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited as Self
2012BBC Comedy Feeds
2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
2011Pointless Celebrities as Self
2008Doctor Who: The Next Doctor as The Doctor (6) (archive footage)
2008Trials and Tribulations
2008The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
2008Now, Get Out of That
2008The Ties That Bind Us as The Sixth Doctor / Commander Maxil (archive footage)
2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2007Davros Connections as (archival audio)
2007The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2007Kingdom as Mr. Dodds
2006Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006Lords and Luddites: Making 'The Mark of the Rani'
2005Doctor Who Confidential
2005Doctor Who: A New Dimension as Self
2004Hustle as Phil
2003The Story of Doctor Who
2003Adventures in Time and Spain as (archive footage)
2003The Afternoon Play as Judge
2002Doctor Who: Real Time as The Doctor
2002I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! as Self
2002Doctor Who: Real Time as The Doctor
2001The Home Whovian
2000TravelWise as Jonathan Pike
2000The Asylum as Arbuthnot
1999Adventures in Space and Time as Himself
1999Carnival of Monsters
1999The Waiting Time as Giles Fleming
1999The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert as Chauvel
1999The Harpist
1999Sunburn as John Buchanan
1999Soul's Ark as Galico
1997A Dance to the Music of Time as Canon Fenneau
1997Stranger Than Fiction 3: Acting Up
1997Jonathan Creek as Hedley Shale
1995The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
1995The Stranger: Eye of the Beholder as The Stranger / Soloman
1995Stranger than Fiction 2: From Script to Screen
1994The Stranger: Breach of the Peace as The Stranger / Soloman
1994The Knock
1994Doctor Who: The Colin Baker Years as Self - Presenter
1994PROBE: The Zero Imperative as Peter Russell
1994Stranger than Fiction
1994The Stranger: The Terror Game as The Stranger / Soloman
199330 Years in the TARDIS as Himself
1993Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time as The 6th Doctor
1993Bigger Inside Than Out as Narrator
1993GMTV as Self
1993The Airzone Solution as Arnold Davies
1993The Stranger: In Memory Alone as The Stranger
1992Doctor Who: Cybermen - The Early Years as Self - Host
1992The Stranger: More Than a Messiah as The Stranger
1991Pebble Mill as Self
1991The PanoptiCon Tapes Vol 1 - The Main Event
1991The Stranger as The Stranger
1991The Stranger: Summoned by Shadows as The Stranger
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes V
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes IV
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes III
1990The PanoptiCon Tapes II
1986Doctor Who: The Ultimate Foe as The Doctor
1986The PanoptiCon Tapes VI
1986Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids as The Doctor
1986Doctor Who: Mindwarp as The Doctor
1986Doctor Who: The Mysterious Planet as The Doctor
1986Casualty as Colin Miles
1986Casualty as David Vincent
1986Who's Who
1985Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks as The Doctor
1985Doctor Who: Timelash as The Doctor
1985Doctor Who: The Two Doctors as The Doctor
1985A Fix with Sontarans as The Doctor
1985Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani as The Doctor
1985Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos as The Doctor
1985Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen as The Doctor
1985Doctor Who's Who's Who as Doctor Who
1984Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma as The Doctor
1984Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani as The Doctor
1984Swallows and Amazons Forever! as Dr. Dudgeon
1983Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity as Commander Maxil
1982Countdown
1982Wogan as Self
1981Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective as William Lind
1978Blake's 7 as Bayban
1975Jim'll Fix It as Doctor Who
1975Drive Carefully, Darling as Brain
1974The Carnforth Practice
1974Fall of Eagles as Crown Prince Willie
1973Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as George Barclay
1972The Edwardians as Joseph Laycock
1972War & Peace as Anatole Kuragin
1972The Brothers
1972The Moonstone as John Herncastle
1972The Moonstone as John Herncastle
1971Cousin Bette as Count Wenceslas Steinbock
1970The Adventures of Don Quick as Rebel
1970The Roads to Freedom as Claude
1969The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder as Reigate
1965Public Eye as Town Hall Clerk
1963Doctor Who as Commander Maxil
1963Doctor Who as The Doctor